HOVERINGHAM, a parish in the southern division
of the wapentake of THURGARTON, county of NOTTINGHAM,
5 miles (S.) from Southwell, containing 335 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry
of Nottingham, and diocese of York, endowed
with £200 royal bounty, and £400 parliamentary grant,
and- in the patronage of the Master and -Fellows of
Trinity College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to
St. Michael, has a Norman porch.